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New Reuters app is an “Editors Choice” in the Apple App Store!
We’re so excited about how well the new app is being received. On top of that, there’s a lot of additional features coming soon. We’re only getting started, stay tuned.
Find out more about the new Reuters news app and download it here for iPad and iPhone.This is awesome. Big congratulations to our product and development team who worked really hard on this.
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A new way to stay informed
Introducing two innovative new iPhone and iPad apps that deliver the speed, breadth and insight of Reuters journalism and financial information.
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Get Paid for Taking Pictures with Your iPhone
Grab five to ten minutes here or there, at the right time and the right place, to complete a massive task no one person could do on his or her own. That’s exactly what a new startup called Gigwalk is trying to do, using the power of– you guessed it– the iPhone. You download the app, enter your PayPal information and get assigned entry level “gigs” or jobs that may take just a few minutes at a time, if you’re in the right location.
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CNNMoney Tech Tumblr: Instagram's instant growth
Instagram’s Kevin Systrom spoke about his app’s growth at TechCrunch Disrupt this morning. The photo sharing app has taken off in the last months.
Check out these stats:
10 photos posted per second, 4 million users, 4 employees.
That’s a million users per employee! No pressure, right? Not so…
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News.me prepares for launch
A collaboration by bit.ly and the New York Times R&D lab. Until I can get my hands on it, it’s hard to say what it may offer that Flipboard doesn’t already provide.
Peter Kafka offers some clues.
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Color received three times more than Facebook did in their initial round of financing (via The Daily)
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Addieu gets higher marks than Foursquare, Hashable, GroupMe and Gowalla.
Go Brian! (did I mention he’s building our Neighborhoodr app?)
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It seems like there are hundreds of new apps that pop up everyday but this actually turns out to be something extremely useful.
knowabout.it by Kevin Marshall allows you to plug in your twitter account (and your facebook, tumblr, even any rss feeds you follow) grabs the links shared within them, indexes, organizes and bubbles up the ones most relevant to you based on what you tweet about.
I’ve only just started using it and I’m already starting to see myself use it more than my other Twitter clients.
If you want an invite code, hit up @falicon on Twitter
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The dominant models of search and social for discovery seem to point to the need for syndication above the need for subscription to branded channels. The syndication model in turn requires additional focus on relevance. This, together with the new needs for social and design, again points to the need for media companies to refocus their efforts on their core competency; journalism.
This also points to the need for new platforms that allow these media companies to syndicate their content. Proliferation of individual apps or channels is not the new model. Google/Yahoo news isn’t the new model - they’ve been surpassed by Facebook already. Community sites like Digg and Reddit are not even in the running.
The good news for media is that when they embraces the new model, I think they will make far more money than they ever have in the past due to the combination of broader distribution and better targeting leading to larger ad revenues.
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Apple finally approves Google Voice app
Apple began carrying Google’s free voice app for iPhone on Tuesday, after the application hung in limbo for more than a year.
The Google Voice app interfaces with the Web service by the same name. Voice lets users register a new phone number where calls can be forwarded and organizes voice mail, text messages and call logs in a central inbox.
